Wednesday, 8 January 2014

Man claiming to be Jesus banned from Britain, U.S.

Inri Cristo, the self-proclaimed Christ, preaching in the midst of close disciples. Photo courtesy Daily Mirror.

A man who claims to be Jesus Christ and has been dressing up as such since 1979 has been banned from Britain in

Former Miss Venezuela Mónica Spear shot dead

Caracas: Former Venezuelan beauty queen and actress Mónica Spear

Fashola Swears in New Perm Secs

Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State, yesterday, tasked civil servants to always discharge their duties in the interest of the tax payers.

Fashola who gave the charge at the swearing-in ceremony of the eight newly appointed Permanent Secretaries at Lagos House, Alausa Secretariat, Ikeja.
Some of the eight new Permanent Secretaries are: Engr. Olujimi Nunayon Hotonu; Mrs. Oluwatoyin Onikoyi; Mrs. Jokotola Ogundimu and Mr. Michael Dawodu.
Other Permanent Secretaries/Tutors-General are: Mrs. Florence Ogunfidodo, Mr. Yinka Olaniyi and Mrs. Margaret Solarin.

Acid victim Naomi Oni’s alleged attacker finally nabbed. It was her friend!

21 year old acid victim Naomi Oni was disfigured for life after an unknown person wearing a Niqāb threw acid in her face as she walked home from work on Sunday December 30th 2012 in Lodge Avenue Dagenham, east London, (If you missed qit, read about it HERE)

The Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics has insisted that it will continue with the ongoing strike until government meets its demands.

Speaking with our correspondent, the ASUP President,

Akwa Ibom State Governor Godswill Akpabio has implored the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Alhaji Aminu Tambuwal, to stop further defection of members of Peoples Democratic Party in the National Assembly to other political parties.

Akpabio’s position was

United are on the brink of a trip to Wembley as David Moyes’ side prepare for a trip to Sunderland in the first leg of the Capital One Cup semi-finals on Tuesday evening.

Quick turnaround The Reds won’t have long to prepare for this fixture, with

Tony Elumelu, the entrepreneur, philanthropist and chairman of Heirs Holdings Limited, a pan-African investment company, has argued that Africa must do more to tackle the threat of unemployment, which

Nigerian CAR evacuees: Image by AFOLABI SOTUNDE/Newscom/RTR

Some Nigerians recently evacuated from the troubled Central African Republic (CAR) on Monday in Abuja cautioned their fellow country men and women against causing ethnic and religious crises in the country.

Some of the evacuees, who spoke to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) at the Hajj Camp, Abuja, advised those who have grudges against their country to embrace

hospital sign: Image by David H. Lewis/Getty Images

Patients in hospitals in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) lauded the suspension of the proposed indefinite nationwide strike by the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) and called for dialogue to resolve the issues.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) correspondent who visited some public

The threat by some aggrieved Peoples Democratic Party senators to defect to the All Progressive Congress will not earn the APC the majority status in the senate, emerging scenario indicated.

Some PDP senators were said to have concluded plans to defect to the APC when

Nurses, pharmacists and other health workers in public health institutions except medical doctors will begin a five-day nationwide strike on Wednesday.

The National President, Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria, Mr. Olumide Akintayo, who spoke on behalf of the Assembly of Health Care Professionals and the Joint Health Sector Unions at a press briefing in Lagos on Monday, said the industrial action would be

A woman identified as Hajiya Bilkisu Mahmoud on Monday slumped and died after waiting for several hours to see the Niger State Governor, Dr. Babangida Aliyu, in his office.

The 46-year-old woman was said to have waited for some hours to see

The All Progressives Congress in Ogun State has described the leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP and Labour Party, LP, as bad losers for rating governor Ibikunle Amosun below average.

The party which described the rating by t

The Board of Trustees of the PDP is to intervene in the crises within the party, especially the rift between President Goodluck Jonathan and a former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo , The PUNCH has learnt.

The feud between the PDP National Chairman, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, and some governors elected on the platform of the party, will also be a part of the agenda of the January 15 Bot meeting.

The Presidency has made a proposal for an upfront deposit of N1.5billion for a brand new

There was pandemonium at Ise Ekiti in Ise Orun Local Government Area of Ekiti State, yesterday, when a trader whose name was

Queen Elizabeth II places her message to the Commonwealth Games in the Commonwealth Games Baton, during its launch ceremony

Dylan Thomas's boathouse and the Urdd Eisteddfod will be among venues visited in Wales as part of the Queen's Baton Relay (QBR) this summer.

The relay builds up to the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow in July,

At least 10 people were killed and another nine wounded on Monday in an explosion at the home of a tribal leader in a restive area of northwest Pakistan, officials said.

The blast came in a remote village in Khyber tribal district, close to the Afghan border in Tirah Valley, which last year saw fierce fighting between the Pakistani military

As the National Reconciliation Committee of the All Progressives Congress, APC, intensifies efforts to ensure harmony in the party, the status of former Governor of Osun State and immediate past National Secretary of new Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola is still unclear within the state chapter of the APC.

g5A tussle for the soul of the party in Kano between Governor Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso and his predecessor,

Syria rebels lay siege to Qaeda-linked jihadists

Syrian rebels were laying siege on Monday to jihadists in their northern stronghold of Raqa, as they waged an all-out offensive aimed at crushing the Al-Qaeda affiliate they accuse of abuses.

Raqa is the latest front in a fight pitting a broad coalition of moderates and Islamists opposed to President

African migrants: Image by AP Photo/Ariel Schalit

More than 10 000 African asylum seekers who entered Israel illegally through Egypt staged a protest in Tel Aviv on Sunday, denouncing the Jewish state's long-term detention of illegal immigrants.

Demonstrators sharply criticised the authorities' refusal to give them

Some Nigerians evacuated from Central Africa Republic (CAR) have appealed for jobs from the Federal Government.

The evacuees told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja on Sunday that gainful employment would help to cushion their plights. One of them, Uche Okechukwu, who hailed Imo, said: "I am pleading to the Federal Government to help us with something to do to survive because we have lost everything.

Another evacuee, Mrs Charity Igwe, from Anambra, who flee CAR with four children, said going home with the children would not be easy for her. Igwe said her husband refuse to come so she had to leave with her children for safety. Mr Sule Idris from Kano State said he was coming home after a four-year stay in CAR, stressing that his regrets was that he lost everything.

Idris appealed to the Federal Government to provide him with a job to make life meaningful for him again. NAN reports the Defence Headquarters (DHQ) in collaboration with NEMA, Nigeria Immigration Services and other government agencies, have so far airlifted 1596 Nigerians from CAR back to the country.

A NAN correspondent, who monitored the airlift in Bangui, reports that the airlifting followed the presidential directive that all Nigerian citizens be evacuated.
The Director of Defence Information, Maj.-Gen. Chris Olukolade, represented by Lt.-Col. Ezindu Idimah, said DHQ had provided Nigerian Air Force plane, medical team and other personnel to assist in the exercise.

The Head Mission, Control Centre of NEMA, Cdr .Mike Igwe, said the agency had been on ground for over a week to provide succour to the displaced persons.
Igwe said that there had not been any casualty, so far in the exercise.

APC chieftains fault Ngige on Anambra LG polls

Deputy National Chairman of the All Progressive Congress, APC, South, Senator Annie Okonkwo, and Anambra State chairman of the party, Mr. Chuks Chinwuba, have picked holes in comments attributed to Senator Chris Ngige that the party would not

AHEAD of 2015 elections, campaign

Osun workers vow to improve service delivery in 2014

Some workers in Osun have promised to improve on service delivery for better productivity in 2014 as they resumed work on Thursday after the New Year holiday.

In separate interviews with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Thursday in Osogbo, some civil servants in the state expressed

Ogun State Governor, Ibikunle Amosun

The car used for the operation and the recovered phones
credits: Eniola Akinkuotu

“Yet, it is likely that the PDP will be, as the run up to the 2015 election progresses, just the shell of PDP; a large portion of its gut, body and soul already gone. The Presidency will fight back with everything in its armoury –including rigging, sending the EFCC against its enemies, etc. But it will always help Jonathan to remember that there is always the X-factor in Nigerian politics; that great unknown which ensured that despite the largest bribery campaign to deface Nigerian history (amounting to over USD $5 billion), Obasanjo still lost the Third Term tenure elongation bid. He had cowered or bought almost everybody…yet he lost.”

BEVERLY HILLS, CA, January 05,

Minister of Aviation, Ms. Stella Oduah

A toddler from Longmont, Colo., has tested positive for THC, the active ingredient in marijuana, just days after the drug became legal in the state.

The mother of 2-year-old Evelyn, Aida Hernandez, thinks that her daughter may have eaten part of a

Even before it is released in the market, the much talked about film October 1, produced and directed by celebrated film maker and actor, Kunle Afolayan has won the Fiction Film

The chairman of South-West Peoples Democratic Party’s Mobilisation and Organisation Committee, Buruji Kasamu, has described the leader of the All Progressives Congress, Bola Tinubu, as

Governor Seriake Dickson
credits: File copy

A trained Pilot, young amiable Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of Westoil Petroleum Services Ltd (WPSL), Mr. Bidemi Fahm has been involved in the oil and gas business since 1999.

Apart from being the owner of WPSL, Bidemi is

Director-General, NEMA, Muhammad Sani-Sidi

In preparation for the 2015 general elections, the opposition party, All Progressives Congress (APC) has began its search is for the party’s vice presidential candidate right.

Popularly, it was assumed that former Head of State,

According to what Pearl Magazine reported, many have faulted these actresses on their dirty lifestyles especially with the way they try to live fake lives, but some believe the media may have over exposed them.

We are x-raying top most passed around Yoruba actresses. Let

The management of the College of Education IIorin, on Sunday appealed to the Federal Government to allow state colleges of education to offer degree programmes in the country.

The Provost of the college, Dr. Isiaka Opobiyi,

Prolific producer and musician, Babatunde Okungbowa a.k.a OJB Jezreel and his wife, Mabel, talk about their 20-year-old marriage and why she gave him her kidney.

How long have you been married?
OJB: We have been married for

The Independent National Electoral Commission will conduct the Ekiti State governorship election in June this year, while that of Osun State will be held a few months after, The PUNCH has learnt.

The Chief Press Secretary to INEC Chairman, Mr.

Amudatulai, Baby Odunayo and Some residents pose with Amudatulai

By Osun Deffender
For four years, she was known to wander the street of Badejo Kalesanwo, Oduduwa Community, in Mushin Local Government Area Lagos State.

She slept on the road, ate from bins and went about in tatters. Some months ago, people saw her with a protruding belly and dismissed it as

All Progressives Congress (APC) has granted the five governors that defected to the party the privilege to nominate chairmen and five other members of the state executive as a way of accommodating their interests in the party.

The Interim National Publicity Secretary of the party, Alhaji

Sunday, 5 January 2014

2015: APC shops for Buhari’s deputy *Oshiomhole, Okorocha, Amaechi on the card

Ahead of 2015 general elections and not leaving any chances, the opposition All Progressives Congress (APC) is shopping for the party’s vice presidential candidate right away.

This is even,

The All Progressives Congress, APC, cannot beat the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) at the 2015 general elections, Deputy National Chairman of the party, Chief Uche Secondus has boasted.

Secondus, who made this known at an enlarged meeting of

NFF, Globacom perfect arrangements for Glo-Caf Awards

Top officials of the Nigeria Football Federation and Globacom

computer lab: Image courtesy of Fuse/Getty Images

The Kano State Government says it will establish an e-learning centre in each of the 44 local government areas of the state this year.

The state Commissioner for Education, Alhaji

Dr. Umar Duhu, National Vice-Chairman, All Progressives Congress (APC) North-East, has expressed optimism in the ability of the party to win the 2015 general elections in Gombe State.

Duhu said this in an interview with newsmen after inaugurating

Wednesday, 8 January 2014

Tuesday, 7 January 2014

Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State, yesterday, tasked civil servants to always discharge their duties in the interest of the tax payers.

The threat by some aggrieved Peoples Democratic Party senators to defect to the All Progressive Congress will not earn the APC the majority status in the senate, emerging scenario indicated.

Monday, 6 January 2014

The Independent National Electoral Commission will conduct the Ekiti State governorship election in June this year, while that of Osun State will be held a few months after, The PUNCH has learnt.

Sunday, 5 January 2014